Claude Becker

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Claude Becker is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Claude Becker has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Plant Science, 27 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Claude Becker's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (34 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (10 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (9 papers). Claude Becker is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (34 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (10 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (9 papers). Claude Becker collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and United States. Claude Becker's co-authors include Detlef Weigel, Jörg Hagmann, Daniel Koenig, Jonas Müller, Oliver Stegle, Karsten Borgwardt, Chang Liu, Niklas Schandry, Danelle K. Seymour and Congmao Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Claude Becker

51 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Spontaneous epigenetic variation in the Arabidopsis thaliana methylome

2011 526 citations Claude Becker, Jörg Hagmann et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Claude Becker Germany	27	2.5k	1.7k	432	172	100	53	3.0k
Stefanie De Bodt Belgium	25	2.7k 1.1×	2.4k 1.4×	378 0.9×	160 0.9×	68 0.7×	28	3.5k
Miloš Tanurdžić Australia	24	2.4k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	266 0.6×	223 1.3×	66 0.7×	39	2.9k
Aleš Pečinka Germany	30	3.0k 1.2×	2.3k 1.4×	372 0.9×	291 1.7×	52 0.5×	77	3.4k
Marcel Quint Germany	31	2.7k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	186 0.4×	139 0.8×	84 0.8×	56	3.2k
Tetsu Kinoshita Japan	31	3.0k 1.2×	2.0k 1.2×	634 1.5×	251 1.5×	34 0.3×	56	3.5k
Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid Austria	37	4.8k 1.9×	3.6k 2.2×	460 1.1×	247 1.4×	57 0.6×	71	5.5k
Federico Valverde Spain	25	3.4k 1.4×	2.9k 1.7×	211 0.5×	157 0.9×	76 0.8×	46	4.0k
Hussein Abdel‐Haleem United States	18	1.1k 0.5×	710 0.4×	644 1.5×	115 0.7×	127 1.3×	47	1.8k
Paula E. Ralph United States	12	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	397 0.9×	530 3.1×	53 0.5×	14	2.1k
Andreas Madlung United States	20	3.2k 1.3×	2.0k 1.2×	735 1.7×	481 2.8×	56 0.6×	34	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Claude Becker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Claude Becker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Claude Becker

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Toyomasu, Tomonobu, Michael Gigl, Yuto Hasegawa, et al.. (2025). Evolution and diversification of the momilactone biosynthetic gene cluster in the genus Oryza. New Phytologist. 245(6). 2681–2697. 3 indexed citations

Knoch, Eva, Zhidan Wang, Saleh Alseekh, et al.. (2025). Subfunctionalization and epigenetic regulation of a biosynthetic gene cluster in Solanaceae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(8). e2420164122–e2420164122.

Becker, Claude, Lauren M. McIntyre, Wim H. van der Putten, et al.. (2024). High-resolution methylome analysis uncovers stress-responsive genomic hotspots and drought-sensitive transposable element superfamilies in the clonal Lombardy poplar. Journal of Experimental Botany. 75(18). 5839–5856. 3 indexed citations

Mateo, Pierre, Tobias Züst, Valentin Gfeller, et al.. (2024). The lactonase BxdA mediates metabolic specialisation of maize root bacteria to benzoxazinoids. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6535–6535. 19 indexed citations

Becker, Claude, et al.. (2024). Transposon dynamics in the emerging oilseed crop Thlaspi arvense. PLoS Genetics. 20(1). e1011141–e1011141. 5 indexed citations

Becker, Claude, et al.. (2023). DNA methylation in the wild: epigenetic transgenerational inheritance can mediate adaptation in clones of wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca). New Phytologist. 241(4). 1621–1635. 15 indexed citations

Hagmann, Jörg, Rahul Pisupati, David Langenberger, et al.. (2022). MethylScore, a pipeline for accurate and context-aware identification of differentially methylated regions from population-scale plant whole-genome bisulfite sequencing data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. e19–e19. 13 indexed citations

Wibowo, Anjar Tri, Jonathan Price, Travis Wrightsman, et al.. (2022). Predictable and stable epimutations induced during clonal plant propagation with embryonic transcription factor. PLoS Genetics. 18(11). e1010479–e1010479. 5 indexed citations

Roquis, David, et al.. (2022). DNA methylation dynamics during stress response in woodland strawberry ( Fragaria vesca ). Horticulture Research. 9. uhac174–uhac174. 34 indexed citations

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Georgii, Elisabeth, Barbro Winkler, Andrea Ghirardo, et al.. (2021). Nitric oxide coordinates growth, development, and stress response via histone modification and gene expression. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 187(1). 336–360. 48 indexed citations

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Becker, Claude, et al.. (2021). Epigenetics in plant organismic interactions. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 61. 102060–102060. 32 indexed citations

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Forné, Ignasi, Elisabeth Georgii, Yong-Tao Han, et al.. (2021). GSNOR Contributes to Demethylation and Expression of Transposable Elements and Stress-Responsive Genes. Antioxidants. 10(7). 1128–1128. 15 indexed citations

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Langenberger, David, Claude Becker, Katrin Heer, et al.. (2021). The EpiDiverse Plant Epigenome-Wide Association Studies (EWAS) Pipeline. Epigenomes. 5(2). 12–12. 8 indexed citations

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Schandry, Niklas, et al.. (2020). ARADEEPOPSIS, an Automated Workflow for Top-View Plant Phenomics using Semantic Segmentation of Leaf States. The Plant Cell. 32(12). 3674–3688. 20 indexed citations

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Wibowo, Anjar Tri, Claude Becker, Julius Dürr, et al.. (2018). Partial maintenance of organ-specific epigenetic marks during plant asexual reproduction leads to heritable phenotypic variation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(39). E9145–E9152. 53 indexed citations

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Expósito‐Alonso, Moisés, Claude Becker, Verena J. Schuenemann, et al.. (2018). The rate and potential relevance of new mutations in a colonizing plant lineage. PLoS Genetics. 14(2). e1007155–e1007155. 91 indexed citations

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Catoni, Marco, Jayne Griffiths, Claude Becker, et al.. (2017). DNA sequence properties that predict susceptibility to epiallelic switching. The EMBO Journal. 36(5). 617–628. 39 indexed citations

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Xu, Tengfei, Inyup Paik, Luise Wolf, et al.. (2017). Characterization of Phytochrome Interacting Factors from the Moss Physcomitrella patens Illustrates Conservation of Phytochrome Signaling Modules in Land Plants. The Plant Cell. 29(2). 310–330. 56 indexed citations

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Rahmioğlu, Nilüfer, Alexander Drong, Helen Lockstone, et al.. (2016). Genome-wide DNA methylation and mRNA expression profiling in eutopic endometrium, disease tissue and fat: implications for endometriosis research. Human Reproduction. 31. 9–10. 1 indexed citations

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Hagmann, Jörg, Claude Becker, Jonas Müller, et al.. (2015). Century-scale Methylome Stability in a Recently Diverged Arabidopsis thaliana Lineage. PLoS Genetics. 11(1). e1004920–e1004920. 101 indexed citations

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